Canada’s Delaney Gibb posted the first triple-double by a BYU player since 1986 on Saturday, finishing with 15 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists as BYU beat Montana 97-53 at the Marriott Center in Provo. FINAL: BYU Cougars 97, Montana Grizzlies 53.
How to watch: BYU Cougars vs Montana Grizzlies, Saturday, November 7, 2026, 4:00 p.m. ET at the Marriott Center, Provo, Utah
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Delaney Gibb Triple-Double Ends A 40-Year Wait
The wait lasted four decades. BYU Athletics records Gibb’s night as the program’s first triple-double in 40 years, and the fuller history is even sharper: it was BYU’s first triple-double built on points, rebounds and assists since 1982. A triple-double of any kind had not been seen in the program since 1986, which is why head coach Lee Cummard could hardly believe the number when it was put to him after the game.
“It looked like a fun game to play in, and then we had an amazing individual statistical night from our point guard. I can’t believe that it’s been 40 years since we had a triple-double, so that’s pretty cool,” Cummard said, as Sportsnet’s report of the game recorded.
It was also the first triple-double of Gibb’s career, and she pointed straight at the part of the game she had been working on. “I focused a lot on rebounding these past couple of days,” Gibb said. “That’s kind of what fueled tonight. But also, I have to just give thanks to my teammates. They came in clutch and knocked down big-time shots.” The rebounding focus showed in the line: 10 boards to go with the 10 assists, on a night when the five-foot-ten junior guard ran the offence and finished as the story of the game.
How The Game Broke Open
For a few minutes, this was a contest. Montana’s Paige Lofting, who finished with 18 points, hit back-to-back three-pointers to put the Grizzlies ahead 10-7 in the first quarter, and the two teams traded turnovers and baskets early. Freshman Prasayus Notoa changed the temperature when she checked in, scoring two straight layups to spark a 7-0 BYU run and finishing the first quarter with eight points. “She really kind of gave us a lift for a spark,” Cummard said. “We weren’t playing poorly, just a little bit haphazardly. We wanted to be a little bit more aggressive, and she came in and gave us a lift, especially scoring it.”
From there the Cougars took the game away in layers. A 19-3 run in the second quarter built BYU’s first double-digit lead. The third quarter was more evenly contested, but the push Montana needed never came, and the fourth quarter belonged entirely to BYU: an 18-0 run stretched the lead to 40 points. Every BYU player scored. Sophomore Olivia Hamlin led the Cougars with 22 points, one short of her career high of 23, and 13 of them came in the fourth quarter. “After halftime, I just took a deep breath and calmed down my shot,” Hamlin said. “With Delaney and having other playmakers on the court has really helped.”
The margin told its own story about a year of growth. Last season BYU travelled to Montana and escaped with a 70-69 win. This time, at home, the same matchup ended in a 44-point rout. “I think our mindset was better. We have a little bit more depth this year,” Cummard said. The win closed a three-game homestand, BYU’s third game in five days, and moved the Cougars to 3-0 for the fourth consecutive season.
A Canadian Guard Built For The Whole Stat Sheet
Gibb, from Raymond, Alberta, is in her third year at BYU, and the all-around line is the direction she said she wanted her game to go. At Big 12 media days she talked about having a bigger impact beyond scoring as an upperclassman, and the first week of this season shows the shape of it: she opened with 17 points, seven rebounds and four assists against Idaho State, grabbed 10 rebounds against Portland, and then filled every column against Montana. Through three games she is averaging 13.7 points, 9.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists.
The background supports the moment. Gibb was the unanimous Big 12 Freshman of the Year in 2025, when she led BYU in scoring at 17.4 points per game, set a stack of program freshman records and claimed 10 Big 12 freshman of the week awards, then followed it with an All-Big 12 first team season. She had flirted with this line before: on March 1, 2025, against Utah, she put up 36 points, 10 rebounds and five assists, a near triple-double that stood as the closest call until Saturday.
Her Canadian record runs in parallel. Gibb led Raymond to three straight Alberta 4A provincial championships and became the first three-time winner of Alberta’s Miss Basketball award. With Canada, she won bronze at the 2023 FIBA Under-19 World Cup and bronze again with the senior national team at the 2025 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup in Chile, where her inbound pass set up the game-winning basket against Argentina in double overtime. A Canadian guard authoring a 40-year program first in the Big 12 is exactly the kind of line that travels from Provo back home.
What Comes Next For BYU
BYU stays home next, hosting Bethune-Cookman on Wednesday, November 11, with four days to rest after the three-games-in-five-days opening week. Montana, which arrived 1-0 after beating Montana Western, takes its first loss of the season. For Gibb, the test now is repetition: defences will load up on a point guard who can beat them as a scorer, a rebounder and a passer in the same night. On Saturday, for the first time in 40 years of BYU women’s basketball, one player did all three at once, and she did it wearing the number 11 for a program that had waited since 1986 to see it again.
